On a whirlwind tour of Eastern Europe’s most cosmopolitan cities, be prepared for oldstyle elegance, reflective musings, and traditions galore.  You can just as easily spend the evening at one of Europe’s premier opera  houses, the Staatsoper, as you can conversing with the cognoscenti in a Viennese coffeehouse. Walk across the iconic Charles Bridge in Prague and sigh away in one of Budapest’s meltingly hot mineral baths.  No matter what you do, you’ll feel like gentility.

City Stats:
* Countries: Austria • Czech Republic • Hungary
* Capitals: Vienna • Prague • Budapest
* Official Languages: German • Czech • Hungarian
*Currency: Euro • Czech Koruna • Forint

(1USD = .7EUR = 19.5KOR = 177.5FOR)
* Population: 8 million • 10.3 million • 10 million
* Weather: 68 – 95 F average

National Drink: Weisser Spritzer • Becherovka (herbal bitter) • Pálinka (~brandy)

Things to Do:
* Catch an opera in Vienna
* Re-enact ‘Before Sunrise’ (dibs on Ethan!)
* Wander Prague’s Staré Město
* Relax in a mineral hot spring at the Gellért
* Catch a summer festival in Budapest
* Drink lots of beer